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This month:

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Maryland Physics alumnus Dr. Ken Hutcherson, staff scientist for Osram Sylvania. He was kind enough to provide us with an overview of his educational and professional journey and an update on his work since he graduated from the University of Maryland in 1994. He also offered some insight into the pros and cons of careers in both government and private industry as well as some concrete advice for young scientists entering the field of physics...

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Recently, members of our Physics Department's Chaos Group have teamed with meteorologists in an effort to develop novel techniques aimed at achieving greatly improved weather forecasts. Currently we are the only University-based group capable of running state-of-the-art global weather forecasting codes on our own computer facilities. Our goal is to use this capability to conclusively demonstrate superior performance of our methods within the next year, or so. Thus we hope that our ideas will be widely used in future weather prediction.
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